Since last month when Blackboard Inc. was announced as the latest Moodle Partner (as covered in this post), many community members were excited about the future of Moodle as well as open source initiative taken by Blackboard and the impacts of this Blackboard partnership with Moodle.

MoodleRooms has shared a video interview of Martin Dougiamas – CEO & Founder of Moodle and Phillip Miller – Vice President of International Open Source Services for Blackboard recorded on 29th March 2016 in Madrid, Spain checking their views about this new partnership.

During the interview Martin shares his views about the future roadmap of Moodle, impact of having Blackboard as Moodle partner on future roadmap of Moodle, changes coming in 2016 like – Mobile friendly Moodle experience, improving Usability experience and Integration with other systems, and the steps to be taken to improve this collaboration with Blackboard. Martin also said about the increasing community bonding between Moodle users through MoodleMoots which have grown in the past few years.

Phillip Miller also express his future plans with open source initiatives and speaks about the impact on the 12 countries which are covered under this agreement between Moodle and Blackboard, plans about offering Moodle services in Spain which emerged out to be the Second country with more Moodle registered installations, Blackboard strategy with open source software’s. Phillips also discussed about BB contribution towards improving the Moodle software.

Jaswinder Singh

Jaswinder Singh, passionate about using Moodle in improving the Indian Education System and reaching the students in far flung areas where still education seems to be a impossible prospect of life. He is the author of the popular Moodle Book "How to use Moodle 2.7". In October 2016, Jaswinder was elected as the Moodle User's Association Committee member - the first to make it from India.